These are the People in Your Neighborhood: Social Matters, Community Interviews, and the First Research Paper
Presentation Type
Workshop
Location
BHC 126
Start Date
26-9-2009 9:50 AM
End Date
26-9-2009 10:35 AM
Description/Abstract
This session presents a successful and highly flexible two-stage method of introducing first or second-year students to academic research, capitalizing on students’ natural interest in the lives of other people. Starting with a local interview, students produce a reflective draft that leads to a pertinent and realistic research question, a greater range of quality sources, and a short research paper with the marks of a motivated and socially-responsible writer. The writing and research stages will be demonstrated on slides, with particular emphasis on topic generation and source integration issues. Student work samples will be available to show how inexperienced writers have found a practical purpose for academic writing and begun to recog- nize themselves as voices in the community, people in the neighborhood. This presentation is for faculty in all academic areas as well as student engagement professionals. Participants will generate project frameworks appropriate to their own disciplines and leave the session with an idea sheet that can be implemented this semester and at no cost.
These are the People in Your Neighborhood: Social Matters, Community Interviews, and the First Research Paper
BHC 126
This session presents a successful and highly flexible two-stage method of introducing first or second-year students to academic research, capitalizing on students’ natural interest in the lives of other people. Starting with a local interview, students produce a reflective draft that leads to a pertinent and realistic research question, a greater range of quality sources, and a short research paper with the marks of a motivated and socially-responsible writer. The writing and research stages will be demonstrated on slides, with particular emphasis on topic generation and source integration issues. Student work samples will be available to show how inexperienced writers have found a practical purpose for academic writing and begun to recog- nize themselves as voices in the community, people in the neighborhood. This presentation is for faculty in all academic areas as well as student engagement professionals. Participants will generate project frameworks appropriate to their own disciplines and leave the session with an idea sheet that can be implemented this semester and at no cost.